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0. P. PRESCOTT HOSE NOZZLE SUPPORTER.

Patented Aug. 28, 1888.

UNITED STATES OLIVER P. PRESCOTT, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, CHARLES S. PRESCOTT, AND JOHN W. PRESCOTT, OF SAME PLACE.

HOSE NOZZLE SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 388,788, dated August 28, 1888.

Application filed June 6. 1838. Serial No. 276,286.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OLIVER P. PRESCOTT, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefullmprovemcntin Hose-Nozzle Supporters, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

The object of this invention is to furnish a simple, cheap, and ellicient adjustable device for supporting the free end or dischargingnozzle of a lawn or garden hose pipe, so that the jet or spray of water may be thrown in any desired position.

My apparatus consists of a tripod or other suitable frame having a central concave basesocket, in combination with a short standard having a slotted bulb held in position in such socket by a central bolt and thumbscrew, and with spring actuated clampjaws at the upper end adapted to hold or release the nozzle. The standard is adjustable at any angle to the horizon or to any point of the compass by slackening and tightening the thumbscrew.

The construction and operation of the device will be clear from the drawings and description, the peculiar features of my improvement being specified in the appended claims.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective representation of the upper part of the device, the legs being shown part-1y broken away and the jaws as holding a part of the nozzle. Anotherposition ofthejaws is indicated in dottedlines. Fig. 2isa vertical section through the base.

A. A A are the supporting-legs, and B the base into which the legs are screwed. The base is provided with a concave socket in its upper surface to receive the bulb D, which forms the lower end of the standard. The standard is preferably ofcast-iron, and is shown made of two hollow shells, E F, meeting at their edges and united by the bolts and nuts G O.

The clamping jaws I J are approximately semi-cylindrical in form, their concavity serving to hold the hose-pipeH. Thejaw I is a prolongation of the shell F, forming one side of the standard, while the jaw J is a separate casting, having at its lower end the handle K, and at a central point the pivot L, projecting (No model.)

to right and lefttherefrom and working in hearings formed between the halves of the standard by half-round recesses in each. A suitable springdlLpresses the jawJ against the 5 5 pipe H, and the jaw is thrown backward by pressing the handle K inwardly toward the standard.

The bulb D at the foot of the standard is hollow and has a broad slot, N, to admit a screw-eye, P, the threaded stem of which ex tends downwardly through said slot and through a central aperture, Q, in the basesocket, and is furnished beneath the base with a thumbscrew, S. The belt 0 through the bulb passes through the eye P, and hence when thescrew S is tightened the bulb is drawn tightly into the socket and the standard fixed in the desired position.

I claim as my invention- 1. The described hose-nozzle su p porter,consisting of the base B, with its diverging legs A A. A, forming a portable tripod, in combination with the standard provided at its upper end with springactuated clamp-jaws I J, to hold the nozzle, and with a bolt and thumbscrew, 0 S, adapted to secure said standard frictionally to the base when adjusted, substantially as set forth.

2. The legs Aand the base B, formed with a concave socket and with a central aperture,

Q, as described, in combination with the hosesupporting standard having slotted bulb D, the screw-eye P therein, and the bolt 0 and thumbscrew S, engaging with said screw-eye, substantially as set forth.

8. The hollow standard,made in two parts,

E F, united transversely, one ofsaid parts pro longed to form the curved jaw I, in combination with the jaw J and its handle K, cast in 0 tegral and pivoted in hearings in the parts E F, and with a pressure-spring, M, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification,iu the presence of two sub- 5 scribing witnesses, on this 19th day of May, A. D. 1888.

OLIVER P. PRESCOTT.

Witnesses:

A. H. Srnnonn, FRANK T. BENNER. 

